Stiefel, H. C. Slices from a long loaf; logbook of an eventful voyage by five Pittsburg tourists down the beautiful Allegheny river, from Oil City to Pittsburg. $1.25. Bissell block pub.
“A minimum of information about some of the industries of the Pittsburg district is here combined with the story of a boating trip and with a retelling of some other stories, classical and otherwise. The author explains his title by saying that the book like a loaf, may be sliced into at either end or the middle, as fancy chooses.”—Engin. N.
Engin. N. 54: 645. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
Stimson, Frederic Jesup (J. S. of Dale, pseud.). In cure of her soul. †$1.50. Appleton.
The complications created by a host of characters and a tangle of events make for this novel a much-involved plot in which the hero who married in haste, realizes his mistake, finds the woman whom he can love “as a star,” but renounces her and turns from the giddy world to sincere endeavor in the field of law and politics. The wife, meanwhile, develops from a selfish petulant girl who loves the admiration of other men and the ways of a flashy vulgar social set, into a wife and mother worthy of the husband to whom she is re-united on the eve of his greatest political victory. The whole is an argument against divorce.
– Bookm. 23: 639. Ag. ’06. 510w.
“With certain marked faults of style and some looseness of construction, Mr. Stimson’s new novel is none the less one of the few genuinely valuable contributions to fiction of the year. Would that its like were more common.”
+ + – Critic. 49: 287. S. ’06. 360w.